I can’t think of too many really practical uses for this, but I still think it’s one of the coolest applications I’ve ever seen (EDIT: okay, that’s taking it way too far. It’s cool, though). WebNote is, as the site says, simply an online application for taking notes. And, as it turns out, for sharing them.
Slashdot linked to a ZDNet article (which I had actually read this morning, I think) which lists the known web 2.0/AJAX “Office” applications which are beginning to take off over the web. This is what is really interesting to me about “Web 2.0″ — the promise of 100% web based applications. No MS Office (or Corel or Sun or any other, if you don’t need it), just a browser, and a long list of rich web applications.
Some of these I had heard of before… Writely, for example, is cool, but not ready for regular use as a word processor (at least, not when I tried it a couple weeks ago). Kiko I wrote about awhile back. WebNote I hadn’t seen. I don’t know why, but I think it’s one of the coolest new web apps I’ve seen, ever.
I have a workspace set up at http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/load.py?name=phil.crissman if you want to check it out. You’ll be able to create new notes on it and save them, if you like. Slick.
UPDATE: I just started putting workspace names in at random; you can also visit the Slashdot workspace or a Microsoft workspace (which features… creative use of notes…)and probably many more, as they are created.
